Async Sharepoint

An async SharePoint client with a native Rust implementation exposed through PyO3.

The repository also contains a standalone Rust crate in core/, published as async-sharepoint, for Rust projects that do not need Python bindings.

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• Created by Dean MacGregor | GitHub @deanm0000 | PyPI @deanm0000
• MIT License

Features

• Async list, item, file, folder, permission, and search operations
• Native Entra ID certificate authentication with background token refresh
• Automatic token caching and refresh
• Retry handling for throttling and transient SharePoint failures
• Paginated queries and chunked uploads
• Python 3.10+ stable-ABI Linux wheels

Installation

uv add Async-Sharepoint

Rust

cargo add async-sharepoint

use async_sharepoint::{CertificateCredential, SharePointClient};

let credential = CertificateCredential::load(
    tenant_id,
    client_id,
    "/path/to/azure-app-private.key",
    thumbprint,
)?;
let client = SharePointClient::new(site_url, &credential)?;
let files = client.ls(None).await?;

Usage

from async_sharepoint import CertificateCredential, SharePointClient

credential = CertificateCredential(
    tenant_id=tenant_id,
    client_id=client_id,
    private_key_path="/path/to/azure-app-private.key",
    thumbprint=thumbprint,
)

async with SharePointClient(site_url, credential) as client:
    documents = await client.get_items("Documents")

Documentation

Full documentation is available on GitHub Pages.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for development setup, testing, and documentation instructions.

Author

Async Sharepoint was created in 2026 by Dean MacGregor.

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